Andrea Hanke interviews Canongate publisher Jamie Byng, keynote speaker at this weekend’s ABA conference
Thursday, 14 June 2012
‘Know what you are talking about, have a digital strategy, cultivate and cherish your customers, engage with publishers, celebrate the physical space and please don’t give up.’ ABA keynote speaker...
Booksellers welcome the classics revival—but has the market reached saturation point?
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Booksellers Fiona Stager, Catherine Schulz and Heather Dyer offer their thoughts on the recent wave of branded classics, and the impact of price, design and merchandising on their in-store success....
Garth Nix on ‘the most expensive and least useful marketing tool for a book ever’
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Garth Nix talks to Andrea Hanke about the tie-in game for his latest novel A Confusion of Princes, admitting to having called it ‘the most expensive and least useful marketing tool for...
‘Designers need to take more chances’
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
‘Publishers and designers need to take more chances’ was the message from the judges at this year’s APA Book Design Awards. ‘Shelves are full of books that look like each...
Lisa Dempster: the problem with digital media funding in the arts
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
A new review of the Australia Council has recommended a shake up to the way the arts are funded in Australia. Ahead of her last Emerging Writers' Festival as director,...
Stephanie Campisi on Pinterest, QR codes and how booksellers and publishers are using them
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
‘We’re looking at Pinterest as a static archive of curated links rather than a gallery of images. We want to give people a better idea of the “personality” of Scribe.’...
Key findings from Joel Naoum’s Unwin Trust Fellowship report
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Momentum publisher Joel Naoum packed his bags for London last year to investigate experiments in digital publishing among UK trade publishers. His report includes case studies of Macmillan’s digital backlist...
A little TLC: Tanya Caunce on making her store a success
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tech-savvy bookseller Tanya Caunce says her Brisbane store has ‘found general fiction to be a dying category and we now specialise in more niche and literary fiction, children’s books and...
Spotlight on Text’s new Australian Classics
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Got a suggestion for a future Text Australian Classic? ‘If readers want to email me with suggestions, I would be thrilled to receive them,’ publisher Michael Heyward tells Andrea Hanke....
‘Metadata obscura: Zoe Dattner on the nightmare that is ebook metadata supply’
Thursday, 12 April 2012
‘It’s Thursday morning and I’m waiting at SPUNC HQ for Imogen to arrive. Today we’re going to upload 80 ebooks to Roger, Syd and David*. We’d spent the past few...
Page to screen: adaptations due in 2012
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
The Hunger Games on the big screen continues to drive sales of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA series. What other adaptations are due on big (and small) screens in 2012? Andrew...
Ebooks: a short story
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
As Allen & Unwin announces its contribution to the sector, we take a look at the burgeoning genre of the digital short. As Tim Coronel writes, ‘Australian publishers of all...
